[Rarebooks] FS: Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner INSCRIBED to Aaron Copland

[Charles Agvent]

WILDER, Thornton. THE EIGHTH DAY INSCRIBED TO AARON COPLAND. New York: 
Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Copy #5 of 500 numbered and SIGNED 
copies of this National Book Award winner. In addition to being signed 
on the limitation page, the author has INSCRIBED this copy on both the 
title page and the blank page facing it to composer Aaron Copland: 
"Presented to Aaron Copland on/the occasion of the tribute paid/to him 
on his 70th birthday by/the friends of the MacDowell/Colony/T.N.W." On 
the title page: "For Aaron/from/Thornton/with a long admiration 
and/indebtedness and affection./October 1970." Wilder has drawn a red 
box around "Aaron" and a blue box around "Thornton" with colored 
pencils. Copland, one of America's greatest composers and celebrators of 
the American spirit, had much in common with Wilder regarding themes and 
subjects. Copland composed the music for the 1940 film adaptation of OUR 
TOWN, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards. The film itself 
was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, but did not win 
any. After first meeting with Copland to discuss the project, Wilder 
said of him, "He's a very likeable fella." Wilder wrote most of OUR TOWN 
at the MacDowell Colony where Copland also wrote much of his masterwork, 
APPALACHIAN SPRING. An Association Copy of the first magnitude. Mild 
sunning to the spine. Still Fine in glassine and slipcase, as issued. 
(#012070)        $7,500.00

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